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At approximately
fifty-nine minutes and fourteen seconds
past the hour
on that day –

the shared date
of their respective births
by their respective mothers
in their respective homes

lands and oceans apart
mutinies and hyenas between them
separated by stretching trenches of
distance, angle
trigonometry, torque

or long-striding straits of
astonished underbrush
stroked by panic and arrhythmia

one life's nest far from
the den of the other's

his from hers –

the first innocuous fissure appears
in an otherwise faultless model.